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On Getting Angry at Work

Hakan Kimeiga Alpay
2 min readJul 25, 2018

Anger induced from interactions at work is stressful.

You’ll have an interaction in which people less intelligent/hardworking/realistic than you are asking you tough questions.

For whatever reason.

You being a reasonable human being answer them directly and honestly. This means if you don’t know something, you admit it.

This doesn’t appease the angry apples.

They want to hear comfortable fluff: “I did research and am preparing a report and am making progress on development and the team is great”.

They don’t want to hear uncomfortable realities in the details.

But when they do, they’ll ask clarifying questions one after another and become continuously displeased.

Some people can’t be comfortable with the truth, even though you can

After digging you into a hole of unreasonable scrutinizing questions, they’ll tell you how this is unacceptable and you’re “not serious” about it, etc.

Annoying right?

Yeah.

So you’ll steam for the rest of the day. You’ll steam at home that night.

You’ll try to forget it by playing games, watching funny videos, working on your passion.

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Hakan Kimeiga Alpay

Part-time game developer, full-time daydreamer. Loves Counter-Strike, Swiss Style, and architecture.